President-elect Donald Trump “doesn’t wish to pursue” further investigations into Hillary Clinton’s email practices, a top adviser said Tuesday, a turnaround from all the campaign rallies when Trump roused supporters to chants of “lock her up.”
“I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find her to be honest or trustworthy, but if Donald Trump can help her heal then perhaps that’s a good thing,” Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
That comes after months of Trump nicknaming his Democratic rival “Crooked Hillary,” questioning whether the Clinton Foundation is a pay-for-play scheme and raging against the Justice Department for refusing to prosecute her for blending private and official business on her homebrew email server. He told her face-to-face at a presidential debate that if he won the presidency, she’d “be in jail.”
Conway’s comments were striking because Justice Department investigations are historically conducted without the influence or input of the White House. Presidents do not dictate decisions on which criminal investigations are pursued or their outcome.
The disparity between Trump’s taunts on the campaign trail and his approach now, Conway suggested, is part of a purposeful shift away from at least the tone, if not the substance, of his past rhetoric.
“I think he’s thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the president of the United States and things that sound like the campaign aren’t among them,” she said.
Trump himself has appeared to waver on whether he would want to seek further probes into possible wrongdoing by the Clintons.
“I’m going to think about it,” he said in a “60 Minutes” interview, his first sit-down interview after the Nov. 8 election. “I feel that I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on health care, I want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill. We want to have a great immigration bill. And I want to focus on — all of these other things that we’ve been talking about.”
Trump said in that interview that Clinton “did some bad things,” but ultimately the Clintons are “good people” and “I don’t want to hurt them.”
Conway’s comments came as Trump abruptly canceled a meeting with The New York Times on Tuesday, accusing the organization of changing the conditions for the session “at the last moment.” The newspaper denied this and said Trump’s aides tried to change the rules. But Hope Hicks, speaking for Trump, said later the meeting was back on and he’d be “going to The New York Times” later Tuesday.
Trump met privately Monday with representatives of the television networks.
The president-elect heralded “more great meetings” in his Manhattan tower as he continues shaping his administration before heading to Florida for Thanksgiving on Tuesday.
(AP)
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What politicians say and what they actually do are כרחוק מזרח ממערב
As long as I don’t hear Trump saying it or don’t see it on his tweaks, I do not believe anything AP MSMPL Fake News has on Trump.
AP and MSNBC = Fake News
If we’ll hear from Real News that this is indeed so, the halachah in Sanhedrin comes to mind: If all the judges on a Beis Din decide unanimously that a person is Chayav Misah, he is Patur.
(Of course Trump won’t follow halachah, but this monstrous crook is a good example of the halachah, as there’s no doubt that all judges and all sane people in the world would condemn this biggest criminal of the world.)
He’s ignoring the fact that a million more Americans voted for her than for him.
#4 You got the numbers wrong.
In the final result on Nov 13: Trump got 377 !!! Electoral College vote, while Hillary Clinton got 161. So who really was the popular candidate?
And regarding Hillary’s so-called Popular Votes: All baloney! Hillary DID NOT win the popular votes and never won anything, even with the 3 million illegal Immigrants voting for her, 4 million dead voters repeatedly voting for her, and other frauds and rigged voting machines for her, Trump won in a landslide on all fronts.
Looks like he’s becoming a good politician. 😉
Arye! Stay strong!! DONT BELIEVE!!!
PEOPLE!! ONLY BELIEVE IN ARYE HES THE ONLY ONE THAT KNOWS!!!!!!!!!!!
Re comments 2, 3 and 5: Arye = Fake News.
And, what is “MSMPL”?
Arye-
You wrote “In the final result on Nov 13: Trump got 377 !!! Electoral College vote, while Hillary Clinton got 161. So who really was the popular candidate?”
1. Where exactly are you getting those numbers from?
2. If you want to argue that the popular vote has not been reported correctly, then go ahead. But don’t use the results of the electoral vote to prove who was the “popular candidate”. The whole point of the electoral vote is that the popular vote doesn’t matter.
Clever. It Obama pardons her, he’s aiding his a criminal. If Trump pardons, or simply ignores her, he’s being magnanimous in victory, a good sport, a mentsch — just leaving the washed up, discredited old lady alone. It seems Donald is switching from his “Apprentice” role to something based more on “West Wing.”
P.S. Re: popular vote — it appears the Democrats concentrated their “get out the vote” in states where they felt most comfortable (New York, California), and ignored the rest of the country, i.e. the “flyover zone” filled with deplorable people. They shot themselves in the foot since while they won a few states by big margins, they lost many states by small margins. It seems they thought they were running an election under French rules (direct popular vote), rather than American (voting by states). The Republicans played the game correctly, didn’t try to get votes in blue states, and concentrated on winning the purple states.
“And regarding Hillary’s so-called Popular Votes: All baloney! Hillary DID NOT win the popular votes and never won anything, even with the 3 million illegal Immigrants voting for her, 4 million dead voters repeatedly voting for her, and other frauds and rigged voting machines for her, Trump won in a landslide on all fronts.”
What are your sources for these allegations?
Looks like Arye has another account called ‘por’…